Many tourists visit the Nutmeg State to explore its historic towns and coastal scenery.

Many state enterprises struggled to compete with agile private firms after the market opened.

We spent the whole afternoon at the state fair, sampling funnel cakes and watching the tractor pull.

Every summer, our family travels to several state fairs to sample local foods and watch the livestock shows.

After the war, the small country was forced to become a satellite state of its larger neighbor.

During the Cold War, several Eastern European satellite states aligned with the Soviet Union despite local opposition.

After sufficient time, the Markov process relaxes into the Gibbs state, an equilibrium probability distribution that remains invariant under future evolution of the system.

Gibbs states describe thermal equilibrium distributions in both classical and quantum statistical mechanics.

When debugging, it's helpful to log the software state at key checkpoints to trace how data changes.

During the investigation, the government labelled several journalists as enemies of the state, which sparked international criticism.